Philip Palmer
I'm currently doing rewrites on a radio drama detective series set in Cold War Hungary, starring Leo Bill, Clare Corbett and Andy Linden. It's called KEEPING THE WOLF OUT, and it's a three part series following on from a two part series last year.
It's an amazing story world - set in a time when people living in the East were just as frightened of the West as we were of them. The Bay of Pigs; the Cuban Missile Crisis; American expansionism - it all made for a tense, paranoid mindset. But at the same time, Hungarians were still ultimately under the control of an authoritarian Soviet leadership. Caught between two stools, between the frying pan and the fire....
The protagonist, Bertalan Lazar, is a police detective investigating crime in 1960s Budapest. And his boss, Tibor, used to torture people in Stalin's day...
The hope is that there'll be a commission to write Series 3 - fingers crossed!
It's an amazing story world - set in a time when people living in the East were just as frightened of the West as we were of them. The Bay of Pigs; the Cuban Missile Crisis; American expansionism - it all made for a tense, paranoid mindset. But at the same time, Hungarians were still ultimately under the control of an authoritarian Soviet leadership. Caught between two stools, between the frying pan and the fire....
The protagonist, Bertalan Lazar, is a police detective investigating crime in 1960s Budapest. And his boss, Tibor, used to torture people in Stalin's day...
The hope is that there'll be a commission to write Series 3 - fingers crossed!
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